European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Viet duty tax break like getting a raise9 Saigon up american service men in South Viet Nam Are elated Over president Johnson s order pro Viding income tax Relief while they Are on duty think this i great for the morale of Gil in Viet Nam Laid army capt Harold Sims of Memphis Tenn. He la adjutant to the military assistance command. Many people serving Here have Felt they were taking a Chance of dying or getting wounded and that few pro Pic really Soma added tues Day. But this shows that there is a real compassion for them and what they Are most servicemen took a somewhat less expansive and More personal View of the presidential Relief be been saving about $28 a month to that 1 can buy a car when i get Back said ask George or. Of Portland Maine. And the n i to lev idiot no in Hrop. It s jus like gelling a pay pre Siuch Jonnson announced Satur Day he was Slung in an Sec live order declaring Viet Nam and adjacent water a combat zone to provide Federal income tax exemption for servicemen in the area. The order exempts from taxation the entire pay of enlisted m a and to to my a a Contr of a officer s pay received in Viet Nam. In Mii to cheering Mill r Man servicemen was that the presidential order was retroactive to include All oblast year. Particularly elated Over this Wasala Bert Huff of Minneapolis. Minn. I m going Back Home in two weeks he said and i should to getting a big cant of pug Tooi. � n. Korean migs attack . Rb47 who s the greatest a Mouth to Mouta confrontation Champion cassias Clay appears to have met his match jaw Lse. The setae is the Semra Aruin at Miami. Up dominican coup fails Junta in from press dispatches Santo Domingo a three Man military Junta was formed wednesday As troops mopped up rebels after crushing a revolt. The Junta was made up of airfare col Pedro Bartolome Benoit. Army col Apolonar Cassado salad in and Navy cmdr Manuel Santana Carrasco. An announcement said they will reestablish in the country the climate necessary Tor democratic air Force cols Franciscoc Maano and monies Arache leading the mopping up opera photo of Page 17 to Lois said they were making slow but sure Progress in restoring order. admitted that rebel forces were still fighting around the Duarte Bridge in the lit Washington president John son announced the evacuation o 1,000 . Citizens from the country. The 1,000 americans taken out by Navy Landing Craft another 1,100 americans remained in the country. The . Embassy to Santadomingo played a role in negotiations to bring an end to fight ing marked by plane and War ship bombardment of the capital by forces opposing Bosch s return. The end of the fighting came after air and Navy forces oppose o Bosch bombarded Santo do Mingo and then swept into the City with tanks and men. There were reports that hundreds were kitted in the flight in hat erupted sunday. The . Navy transports rec Hamyln and Wood county brought 120 civilians to Sajuan puerto Rico on wedge of the evacuees were americans but a number britons and West indians wer in the group. If 21855 a army Navy air Force in Ahlum a my Lla at a u.$. Am Ami in to a Nazihi a rom n4 Ina mud Tail Olimi 24, number 12 d i0 thursday april 29, 196s boats roads hit in North Saigon a american an vietnamese planes hammered Jorth vietnamese patrol boats a Racks and roads in seven raids wednesday military spokesmen reported. In ground action . Marine stormed into a suspected Viet Ong Village in the first hell cop a combat assault by americans n the vietnamese assault was in conjunction with a ground patrol in the Are Aby another Marine company making it the largest tar by . Marines in the marines got their first enemy fatality during the morn ing s activity with one Viet Cong confirmed killed. However the intense heat Force fido jets hit two ferry areas causing severe dam age to the my by River Terry 8miles Southwest of Dong hoi and moderate damage to Wheerry Complex at Nijiu Hung. The latter had been hit earlier. A . Spokesman said navels and sky Alders left one boat related photo on Page 17, stories of pages 3, 4 turning in the water at Theuang Khe naval base two beached and a fourth . Quang Khe is m Mes North of the Border betwee North and South Viet Nam. All the . And vietnamese planes reportedly returned safely. Which soared Well Over 100 de Grees in the humid Mountain Val Leys took a Large toll from the marines with Between 10 and 40 suffering heat prostration. Six vietnamese sky Alder pilots claimed the destruction of six military Barracks in one area eight smaller buildings in a second target tone and 10 other military structures in a third they also said they Sank is Junks and hit three Small wooden vietnamese sky Alders supported by eight . Air four . Air Force f10sthunderchlefs made another attempt to bring Down the three icon on Pant �4, col is weather partly Claudy to claw try with act Lara Hawara. Thrt4ay Mutl Muci Ettla chant fran Sun Hama Bari " Par Aturya Raea Raad High a Law u. Taiwan a a i attn at Kana a h Havana u to muru Munich Arii m s �7 Rama l41 we Aalto is c Claarice Chudyi a panty Claud Yiraine. M Maamar win vow adopts contract Extension Pittsburgh up the United steel workers adopted a four month no strike contract Extension wednesday after Over coming a rising tide of opposition. The us s 161-member wag policy committee final word on All contract matters agreed tothe Extension at an afternoon meeting never before had the Union voluntarily agreed to an Exten Sion with the nation s Basic steel producers. A strike had been set for Fri Day Midnight when the current contracts with the 10 major related Story Page 4 steel producers expire. The Johnson administration which hailed the Extension agreement tuesday had viewed a possible strike As a threat to the nation s booming Economy. Negotiations on a new Over All contract will resume in three Extension provides for 11.5 cent hourly increase who would be put into an escrow fund during the four month period. It is up to the Union u decide whether the Money wibe used for wages pensions or other fringe on a final Ove All contract were to Contin through the summer. Damaged Jet lands in Japan Washington a a is. Rb47 reconnaissance Lane was attacked tuesday and damaged by two North korean mig17 fighters Over he sea of Japan 50 Miles rom the korean Mainland he defense department announced wednesday. The Brief announcement said he . Plane suffered damage nit was Able to land safely a Yokota air base to Japan and Here were no injuries to the Crew. The defense department said he aircraft was flying More Han 50 Miles from the Korea Mainland and parallel to the coast at the time of the attack. The Pentagon said the rb47. As flying from a base in Japan on a routine Mission it the Tun of the attack. The Home base for the planes Forbes air Force base Kan it had been deployed to Japan or a Rouquie period of opera tion.rb47 planet normally have a six Man american plane returned the fire but it was not know whether hits were scored spokesman said. The area of the incident is near that in which a similar encounter occurred la june 1959.at that time a Navy patrol plane was attacked by a Mig about 85miles East of won san. A Tail gunner n the patrol plane was wounded seriously. The dam aged plane managed to reach an air bae in Japan. The air Force has been using reconnaissance versions of the b47 bomber for about is reconnaissance b47i carry Long Range cameras mapping equipment and electronic gear for checking on location Andi cont. 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